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UT Arlington In The News - Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Making college affordable

Education News.org
reported that The University of Texas in Arlington is now offering a
bargain to students willing to make the attainment of a college degree a
priority. A new program will put the cost of a college education at
$10,000 for qualified students in the Arlington and Mansfield school
districts. But the workload involved will not be for the lighthearted.
Students who are selected to take part will be allowed to earn up to 24
college credits during their junior and senior year of high school and
after graduating would continue their studies at Tarrant County College,
where they will work towards a two-year associate’s degree. For the
final two years, students will transfer to UT Arlington to complete the
remaining credits required to earn their bachelor’s.

Lynch to serve as QinetiQ conference speaker

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Rick Lynch, director of the UT Arlington Research Institute, was mentioned in a Robotics Wire
article about QinetiQ North America. The company will showcase its
latest unmanned systems and remote sensor technology for land, air and
maritime environments at the Annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle
Systems International (AUVSI) North America 2012 exhibition next week in
Las Vegas. Lynch, who serves as QinetiQ North America’s senior advisor
for robotics and warfighter systems, is scheduled to speak to conference
attendees Aug. 7. The story was also carried by Digital Journal.com, WUPV.com (Richmond, Va.) and WMBB.com (Panama City, Fla.).

UT Arlington researchers' work with autistic children highlighted

The Montana Standard
published a story about researchers from The University of Texas at
Arlington and the University of North Texas Health Science Center who
are using a toy robot to gain insight into children with autism. The
researchers hope that their collaborative work will lead to earlier
diagnosis and better treatment for children with the neurological
disorder. The story was initially reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Lose the Training Wheels bike camp held at UT Arlington

The Down Syndrome Partnership of Tarrant County is hosting its 3rd
Annual Lose the Training Wheels bike camp at The University of Texas at
Arlington, CBSDFW.com
reported. By weeks end, some 140 volunteers will help teach children
with disabilities, ages 8 and up, how to ride two-wheel bicycles without
training wheels.

Franklin interviewed about cricket presence in downtown Dallas

The Dallas Business Journal blog, DBJ Confidential,
interviewed Carl Franklin, a UT Arlington herpetologist, in a quest to
find out how crickets, which are normally found in fields, managed to
scale the 56-story Renaissance Tower in Dallas and survive. Crickets,
which are related to grasshoppers, are attracted to lights, and that
could explain why they were in downtown Dallas, Franklin said. If
crickets are flying, they could get caught in turbulent winds that
displace them from the moist soil. The surviving crickets likely fed off
the dead crickets if they didn’t have access to fresh plant matter. The
DBJ Confidential post was noted in The Dallas Morning News blog, The Scoop.